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> If you do as I do, and reject Facebook, you are safe from this form of snooping. Am I? As far as I understood, Facebook tracks internet users who have never
by Double_Cast 13y ago
> If you do as I do, and reject Facebook, you are safe from this form of snooping.
Am I? As far as I understood, Facebook tracks internet users who have never even created an account.
- ams6110 13y agoThey do, you have to actively blacklist them in some way. /etc/hosts file, ghostery, etc.
- pilif 13y agoProbably not if you consume the web the way Stallman does (http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html http://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html)
- balabaster 13y agoI concur - Facebook's plugins to every damn website means that they can tell where your IP address is visiting and correlate a "profile" over time based on the sites you visit. So while they may not know your name, they can tell (as long as it's a property they have a partnership with) where you've been. Site owners that care about privacy should reject all the social plugins that also do this. So if there's a Facebook Like button, or a Facebook comment system on the page, whether you utilize them or not, their plugin was called in order to load it and in turn, you've been tracked.
- mikevm 13y agoThat's why I use Ghostery.
- balabaster 13y agoThanks - just checking that out, looks potentially interesting.
- gitaarik 13y agoAlso check out https://disconnect.me/ https://disconnect.me/
- repulsebo 13y agoFYI ghostery is on the advertisers side and should be avoided altogether if you really care. http://www.businessinsider.com/evidon-sells-ghostery-data-to-advertisers-2013-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/evidon-sells-ghostery-data-to... http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/31/ghostery-a-web-tracking-blocker-that-actually-helps-the-ad-industry/ http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/31/ghostery-a-web-tracking-bl...